It was unclear how Trump's broadside against Qatar and any resulting diplomatic fallout might affect the USA military presence in Qatar, where there are roughly 10,000 American troops and a major US base. French President Emmanuel Macron called for Gulf unity, saying he was ready to back "all initiatives to encourage calm". The escalating tensions between the countries and allies isolating Qatar is leaving the Middle East divided.

According to sources, Navy search and rescue ship had found pieces of the military transport plane in the Andaman Sea late on Wednesday. According to a military statement cited by Reuters , there were 15 children, 58 adults and 35 soldiers and officers on the plane at the time of its disappearance.

NAN reports that the police on Tuesday identified a Moroccan-Italian called Youssef Zaghba , as the third militant who carried out the attack on Saturday. Two more victims of the terrorist attack have been named, an Australian woman and a French man. A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the "preparation of terrorist attacks", while a 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply controlled drugs.

Its Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah held talks with Saudi King Salman on Tuesday but there were no immediate signs of progress. During a news conference in Australia, Tillerson said the USA was encouraging the countries "to sit down together" and address irritants that he said had "bubbled up" for some time.

Comey has finally publicly confirmed his private reports that the president was not under investigation in any Russian probe", Marc Kasowitz, Trump's attorney, said in a statement. On Feb. 14, after an Oval Office briefing on counterterrorism, Trump asked Comey to stay behind, dismissing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who lingered, and waving off Priebus, who peeked through the door.

Comey wasn't discussed, the person said. Christie's office disclosed previous year that Wray had the missing cellphone that was used by the governor and contained about a dozen text messages that Christie exchanged with a former staffer during a legislative hearing related to the bridge in 2013.

However, one of the main stakeholders in the war - the Afghan Taliban - is not present at the conference that hopes to achieve a lasting peace process with the armed group. A U.S. watchdog said last month that a record number of civilians died in 2016, 16 years after then-U.S. President George W. Bush first sent special forces to the country after the September 11 attacks to topple the Taliban regime which sheltered al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Comey in the statement recalled having nine one-on-one conversations with President Donald Trump in four months, a stark contrast from only two such meetings he held with President Barack Obama in the course of three-and-a-half years.

The other attacker who has been named was 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, who also went by the alias Rachid Elkhdar and claimed to be Moroccan or Libyan, police said. As details about the jihadists have emerged, Prime Minister Theresa May has faced questions about her record of overseeing cuts to police numbers when she was interior minister.

On Wednesday, the eve of former FBI Director James Comey's public testimony about his conversations with President Trump , the Senate Intelligence Committee released his seven-page opening statement , at Comey's request. "Again, Trump comes off as the slimy real estate guy who is trying sell you swampland in Florida, but not somebody who is attempting to throw an investigation off track or trying to obstruct justice".

The Fars News Agency, meanwhile, reported that five people had been killed - and at least 10 injured - in the parliament attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to "preserve" and "strengthen" Israel's settlement enterprise during a Wednesday ceremony at the Israeli Knesset to.

Rogers, when asked about his contacts with Trump, said, ?I am not going to discuss the specifics of any interactions or conversations that I may or may not have had with the president of the United States.? Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other top government officials to leave the Oval Office on February 14 before urging Comey to drop the investigation of Flynn.

Qatar has nonetheless forged regional alliances independently of its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council states, drawing accusations from Saudi Arabia and its allies of serving Iranian interests. The Kuwaiti emir played a pivotal role in mediating a compromise in a 2014 diplomatic spat between Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states. CNN reported earlier in the day, citing USA officials, Russian Federation planted the fake news on Qatar's news agency triggering a major crisis in ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the attacks would have "no effect" on the country. Several senators had sought a delay in the vote until next week after the twin deadly attacks against Iran's parliament and the shrine of Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed at least 12 people .

A State Department official says the US believes it is most effective for countries in the region to resolve the conflict among themselves. Qatar , which hosts one of the biggest US military bases in the Middle East, is in the midst of the biggest diplomatic row to hit the Gulf in years after eight Arab nations severed ties over what they say is Qatar's support for terrorism, a claim Doha says is "baseless".

Wray was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division under President George W. Bush and is now in private practice at the law firm King and Spalding. Behind Comey are prosecutor George Z. Toscas, left, and Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray . In 2003, questions swirled on Capitol Hill as lawmakers learned that then-Attorney General John Ascroft's top aides were regularly briefing him on key details of the investigation into who revealed the identity of Central ...

Polling firm ICM put the Conservatives at 46%, up one point compared to a poll on Monday, with Labour unchanged at 34%. But in the near two months since, May has come under fire for her policy U-turns and cuts to the police force during a campaign interrupted by terrorist attacks in Manchester and London .

Just as "Alexa" and "Ok, Google " spurs the Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers into life , Apple's HomePod is awoken with " Hey, Siri ". It's powered by Apple Music , Apple's subscription music service, and connects directly.

I have said earlier that the farmers may have died in police firing. The farmers revolt, now more than a week old, doesn't seem to be getting any calmer with incidents of arson, altercation resulting in death and injuries of many. Ahead of his visit to Mandsaur, violence again flared up as a toll plaza was vandalised and Rs 8-10 lakh were looted. Singhvi said while farmers were demanding fair price for their produce, the BJP government shot them dead.

Unable to wrestle away the president's cellphone, Team Trump's newest tactic is to suggest the president's tweets are unimportant, even as they tout social media as the president's link to the masses. it gives him the opportunity to speak straight to the American people", Spicer said . Spicer did not provide a specific answer when asked at Tuesday's press briefing if Trump was concerned that his tweets Monday could be used against him in the ongoing legal battle over the travel ban ...

The bill is a "carefully crafted response to Iran's ongoing aggression in the Middle East", Sen. "We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote ". Sources said that the attacker blew himself up in front of the Mausoleum. According to that news agency, one person was killed and several more wounded in a bomb and gun attack.

Youssef Zaghba , 22, the son of an Italian mother and Moroccan father, was reportedly stopped at Italy's Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport a year ago as he was headed to Syria via Turkey. A 38-year-old man was on Tuesday arrested at Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest hub, although police would not confirm whether the operation was part of an extradition order.

The tax bill required compromise and significant support from both sides of the aisle. "I'm much less confident that D.C. conservatives will learn from Kansas conservatives", said Jared Bernstein, who was an economic adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden.

A 20-year-old woman went on trial in the USA state of MA on Tuesday, accused of persuading her teenage boyfriend to kill himself, in a case that could break new legal ground. MA doesn't technically have a law against encouraging someone else's suicide, hence the manslaughter charge. Mr. Roy was sitting in his pickup in the parking lot of a store in July, 2014, as the truck filled with carbon monoxide.

He said "the most serious allegation is the statement by Director Comey that the President asked him essentially not to pursue the investigation of Gen. We simply looked at each other in silence. "The conversation then moved on, but he returned to the subject near the end of our dinner". "I hope you can let this go, '" Comey said in remarks posted on the website of the Senate intelligence committee .

EMarketer estimates 35.6 million Americans will use voice-enabled speakers such as the Amazon Echo or Google Home at least once a month, an increase of 129 percent over past year. If Apple can outmatch the latter on sound, while providing enough smarts to compete with the former, the HomePod might have the makings of a good buy.

The. 'The fact that Islamic State has claimed responsibility proves that they [Saudi Arabia] were involved in the brutal attack'. Thirteen people died in the attacks. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, used the attacks to defend Tehran's involvement in wars overseas. Others also drew a link to Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, which Iran accuses of funding IS.

Apple's Phil Schiller said the device combines a great compact speaker with a smart speaker. At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference , Apple unveiled the HomePod Monday, its latest home device. Apple wanted its speaker's audio performance to be top-of-the-line. Changes to the macOS - being renamed High Sierra from Sierra - will prevent videos that people encounter on the Safari web browser from automatically playing.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj known for her timely response on Twitter to SOS messages from Indians overseas also knows how to come up with witty one-liners to shut those who intend to take a dig at her. "I am very busy with human beings in distress." . She is one of the most followed politicians not just in India but also across the world. Twitter user Venkat had tweeted this to Swaraj a year ago in June.

In the testimony, the former FBI chief, who was sacked by Trump last month, said the President asked him to back off his investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn and asked what could be done to "lift the cloud" of the investigation.

Apple is also targeting Sonos as a competitor, which is a sign that the HomePod's audio quality will be better than what we've seen from Amazon and Google . Some industry-watchers have also predicted Apple will announce hardware similar to Amazon's Echo device for the home, which has been a hot-seller in the USA.

Comey said he did not tell Sessions because he expected the attorney general to recuse himself from the Russian Federation probe, which he did two weeks later. To ensure accuracy, I began to type it on a laptop in an Federal Bureau of Investigation vehicle outside Trump Tower the moment I walked out of the meeting.